Donald Pothoven
LAKELAND,FL
Summary
Dynamic Principal Engineer with extensive experience at Verizon, specializing in cloud migration and network security. Proven track record in disaster recovery planning and effective communication, leading successful migrations to AWS EKS and OCI. Adept at fostering team collaboration and implementing DevOps principles to enhance operational efficiency. Flexible hard worker ready to learn and contribute to team success.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
Work History
Principle Engineer - Dev Ops
Verizon
Temple Terrace, FL
01.2023 - Current
- Migrate from AWS EC2s with Wildfly to AWS EKS
- Maintain EKS clusters including deployments, rehydration, verification, and fluentd logging to Kibana
- Maintain OCI servers, Load Balancers and Network Security Groups
- Created and executed the plans for disaster recovery testing and ransomware testing
- Assist external customers with connectivity and security issues
- Provide support for various offshore teams by performing activities that are restricted to offshore personnel
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Verizon
Temple Terrace, FL
12.2005 - 01.2023
- Migrated from IPlanet to JBoss
- Implemented app sec logging to Splunk via Logstash
- Implemented Prevoty RASP on all applications
- Migrated from on-premises servers to OCI
- Implemented New Relic on multiple applications
- Migrated from CVS to GitLab
- Created and maintained Catchpoint scripts
- Created and maintained APIGEE proxies for multiple applications
- Managed the team for the deployment of application releases
- Developed a new testing tool with shell scripts
Software Engineer VI
Verizon
Temple Terrace, FL
10.1999 - 12.2005
- Designed, developed, and maintained UNIX client/server applications for local telephone service order processing, using both EDI and CORBA interfaces
- Worked with external telecommunications customers to establish connectivity and perform interface testing
- Worked with network team to update firewalls, VPN tunnels, and routers for external connectivity
Advisory Systems Engineer
Verizon
Temple Terrace, FL
05.1998 - 10.1999
- Served as Application Architect for a telephone usage processing system
- Produced design documents and cost estimates from business requirements for system enhancements
- Provided guidance to team members and reviewed test results for accuracy
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL12-1996
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Calvin University
Grand Rapids, MI05-1989
Skills
- Cloud migration
- Network security
- Disaster recovery planning
- Agile methodologies
- Project management
- System administration
- Customer engagement
- Team collaboration
- Effective communication
- API integration
- Software architecture design
- Technical design documentation
- Product management
- Cloud computing
- API testing
- DevOps principles
- Job control language (JCL)
- Software debugging
- Program coding
- Cross-functional collaboration
- RESTful services
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Software development lifecycle management
- Version control systems (Git)
- Microservices architecture
- Project coordination
- SQL
- Requirements analysis
- Linux
- OCI
- AWS
- Java
- Oracle
- Jenkins
- Apigee
- Shell Scripting
- EKS
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Principle Engineer - Dev Ops
Verizon
01.2023 - Current
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Verizon
12.2005 - 01.2023
Software Engineer VI
Verizon
10.1999 - 12.2005
Advisory Systems Engineer
Verizon
05.1998 - 10.1999
Master of Science - Computer Science
University of South Florida
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Calvin University